Short Summary
I'm Garry Anthony Fraser, I'm a BAFTA award winning filmmaker and social entrepreneur that focuses on issues in Scottish society that most people shy away from. I focus on deprived council schemes and the young people who live in them. I can get through to the most hard to reach in our society, but I need your help. Really.
Wideo Media, a social enterprise I set up in 2012, aims to harness creativity in youths who are otherwise marginalised in society and empower them through the art of filmmaking.
It's really important for me to help create stepping stones for socially excluded young people throughout Scotland I found my own path out of the margins, and now I want to leave a ladder for others to climb.
Inner City Arts (ICA) intervention projects are a proven catalyst and real game-changer for the life's of the most vulnerable young people in society. They also benefit community safety, and increase life-chances.
Edinburgh University Social Work & Political Science Dept will carry out evaluation of this project, our fourth so far. This will give us a social return of investment to help our case for future sustainability.
We will work with 11 young people who are all in need of intervention & support right NOW!!! And we need your help.
What We Need & What You Get
- We need £15k funding to run this project. This will cover travel and subsistence for the young people, staffing costs, camera hire, insurance, and post production marketing.
- Our minimum costs of making an intervention are £9,000, However, It will be under-resourced and will have a far weaker impact without appropriate funds. To make a real difference in the lives of young people we need £15,000
Lots of people have banded together to provide some amazing rewards and perks; Irvine Welsh has donated signed books, or come & get dinner with some of the cast & crew. You can also visit our editor while he cuts the finished film - or get a character named after you. If you have a company logo, it could appear on our closing credits.
The Impact
What do we do? In short..
""we get wee c***s off the schemes and into education.Nobody else does it."
This is an opportunity to intervene at a critical time in a young persons life and improve their chances. We have run 3 projects before with next to no funding & helped over 25 young people into employment, education,training. Imagine what we could do with your help.
- By contributing to the campaign you are literally helping to save lives through offering an alternative to the life that some of these folk seemed destined to.
- This project is valuable because the issues raised effect all of us as a society. It's not a government led initiative,
- Once this project is completed, we will stick with the young people through their next steps to create a peer to peer support network for college education and/ or jobs.
What the press says (links)
""no excuse" for young people to avoid education, no matter what their background.".
"Most of them left school without any qualifications only to plunge deeper into a life with little hope".
"no excuse" for young people to avoid education, no matter their background.
"Garry is an astonishingly talented and driven filmmaker He’ll be both inspirational to, and inspired by, the young people he’ll be working with. I’m very excited to see their interpretation of this story"
"Garry managed to find his path out of addiction after realising his creative talents on the HND film course at Edinburgh College in 2006. Now Garry is an internationally respected director"
Risks & Challenges
- Our minimum costs of making an intervention are £9,000, However, It will be under-resourced and will have a far weaker impact without appropriate funds. To make a real difference in the lives of young people we need £15,000.
- This is the fourth project that Wideo Media are running, we have smoothed out the whole process to ensure that the young people reap the full benefits.
- Edinburgh University has agreed to carry out an evaluation of this project to work out its Social Return on Investment. That way you will also be able to see how far your money goes in reality.
Other Ways You Can Help
If you can't afford to help, please just spread the word through social media and sign up to our newsletter - the more people that can become part of our movement, the better. We will make our society a better place for us all to live.
